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About
the Department
Forestry was included in this Institute in 1963 by addition
of forestry testing station in Split, as a part of former
Institute for forestry and hunting research of Croatia.
In this way the Institute took over the scientific research
program of the station and developed its research activity
in forestry problematics on the Adriatic area and developed
the melioration of degraded forest surfaces on rocky
terrain. Inside that programme the possibilities and
methods of forest ameliorations on rocky terrain basic
erosion parameters, biological and nurturing characteristics
of particular forest types, introduction of new forest
types, and the phytocellular research of vegetation
on rocky terrain were researched. This united the scientific
research problematics of erosion and amelioration of
agricultural and forest surface in these regions. From
that conjuction number of studies resulted in the framework
of developing area planning on the entire Adriatic region.
The basic content and goal of those studies, inside
that area, that were based on economic, ecologic, and
human character was to get an optimal position and its
optimal application, that will connect to general economic
develpement in that region. On those principles the
researches and studies for the regional area of "South
Adriatic", "Northern Adriatic", and the
islands Hvar, Solta, Brac and others were made.
Besides the investigations mentioned, the departement
also worked on the history of forestry of Dalmatia,
on the programmes of cultivaton of forests and forest
areas of the Dalmatian narrower part of karst, as well
as on the long-termed developmnet of forestry of Dalmatia.
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